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Project: RACE Bandit!

Here we go!!
New Projects are what keep my RC soul alive hehe!

This is basically for screwing with (in a friendly manner of course) the guys brains at my local track that only swear by their FT B4.1 and/or TLR 22b and/or Team Durango 2wd buggies who have most likely never even SEEN a Bandit at the track and even less at an actual CLUB RACE!

Well, being the avid TRX fan I've always been (only one of my 4 surface RCs isn't : its a LOSI SCTE), I've decided to give myself the goal to make it to the A-main (2wd buggy is the biggest class at my club in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada, and its quite competitive). Goal #2 will be winning the A-main, but we'll see about that later!

So far, here is what I've got on my workbench, the rest is either coming from the hobby shop (I work at) or eBay (for rarer parts I'm unable to get from the shop) :

Here's a mini-update:
-added a Dynamite alum. servo horn (proline bellcranks are on the way so the servo-saver-horn from trx won't be necessary!!)
-got some hardware to mount the arms and shocks
-mounted the rear tires

Indeed! I'm graduating chiropractic college this year and since I love RC and figured I'd get a better price on my project parts by working at my LHS as a seller/nitro repair guy! Its **** pay but hey, I'm done with waiting tables and tending bar, no matter how lucrative it is lolll...

Originally Posted by Stach35

Nice!, does the carbon fiber rear tower have holes to mount the rear wing?

Nope... which I've known for a while... seems I could not find any aftermarket part that had those holes for the wing wire except for stock or possibly RPM... Sooooo I've opted for figuring it out later hehe. I'm thinking of either fabricating something with whatever I have in the shop at home or modding an Associated wing/body mount. We'll just have to see what seems more solid and lightweight altogether!

wow this is gonna be fun to keep an eye out for. would be funny to see this win against purpose race built buggies. reminds me of the first time i raced at our local track my second race out. cause i only came in 4th in the first due to driveline issues. i ended up winning the novice class. with a traxxas slash. i had somebody pitted next to me with a team losi 22sct and he could not belive it was a traxxas slash that won. well im gonna get the new proline chassis for it adn im gonna try to beat all of the race rigs in stock sct. and in my class there was a slash 4x4 that i beat by 6 sec. he had swaybars and a much more powerful novak system. i have a slash with rpm parts and a vxl system on 2s and i beat them with some suspension tuning. it funny watching people's faces beating them with a slash.

Indeed the project has evolved!
I've been racing it outdoors in the summer time, indoors in the winter time!
I usually qualify A but sometimes start 1st or 2nd in the Bmain, but never in C hehe!
It's not a cornering machine like the B4.2s, 22bs or Durangos, but it sure is competitive, which was my primary goal: to be able to compete with the better guys with a Traxxas no less!

Here's a few pics of the Bandit in its last building stages. It has since then been modified even more but I'll have to post the more recent pics later today or tomorrow.